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NOVEMBER 20, 2009

This interment will be for real

   Teocca Thompson-Thomas has kept her father’s ashes in her apartment for six years, but she finally decided to have him interred at the Florida National Cemetery in Bushnell.

   But when she made arrangements, she hit a snag, according to OrlandoSentinel.com. A funeral director told her that her father already was buried at the Arlington National Cemetery.

   To clear up the mystery, Arlington officials opened James Tyler Thompson’s vault and found an urn filled with rocks. That urn was provided by Thompson’s daughter from a relationship that predated his marriage to Thompson-Thomas’ mother in 1968.

   An attorney for the National Funeral Directors Association said no law was broken. And Thompson-Thomas regained the right to bury her father in a national cemetery.
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